Halloween Fine Motor Mats | 120+ Cards Counting Shapes Tracing | OT SPED Autism

Build fine motor skills with this big set of low-prep Halloween Fine Motor Activities — over 120 cards covering counting, shapes, tracing, patterns, and more! Fill your centers, morning tubs, and work stations and engage small groups using simple materials you already have: play dough, pom-poms, dry-erase markers, and Wikki Stix.

📦 What's Included

Over 120 cards across 10 skill sets:

• Set 1: Making Bats — counting / 1:1 correspondence
• Set 2: Making Spider Shapes — identifying and labeling shapes
• Set 3: Tracing Simple Objects — identifying and labeling objects
• Set 4: Tracing and Making Shapes — identifying and labeling shapes
• Set 5: Complete the Spider Patterns — identifying and completing patterns
• Set 6: Making Spiders — counting / 1:1 correspondence
• Set 7: Making Bat Emotions — identifying basic emotions
• Set 8: Tracing Lines — basic tracing / pre-writing
• Set 9: Draw the Other Half — symmetry of Halloween pictures
• Set 10: Making Halloween Objects — building with dough

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Fine motor strength and precision
• Pincer grasp (pom-poms, play dough)
• Pre-writing and tracing (lines, objects, shapes)
• Counting and 1:1 correspondence
• Shape identification and labeling
• Pattern recognition and completion
• Symmetry (draw the other half)
• Identifying basic emotions
• Hand-eye and bilateral coordination
• Visual motor integration

📚 How to Use

• Provide play dough, pom-poms, dry-erase markers, or Wikki Stix and let students complete each card
• Set up at fine motor centers, morning tubs, work stations, or small groups
• Differentiate by choosing easier sets (tracing lines, counting) or harder sets (patterns, symmetry)
• Use tongs or tweezers with pom-poms to add a grasp/strengthening challenge
• Mix and match the 10 sets to build a full Halloween fine motor rotation
• Use as early finisher or brain break activities

💛 Perfect For

• Occupational therapy (fine motor / visual motor)
• Special education classrooms (SPED)
• Autism classrooms and ABA programs
• Preschool, PreK, and Kindergarten
• Fine motor centers, morning tubs, and stations
• Halloween and October units
• Early childhood and ECSE
• Homeschool fine motor practice
• Early finishers
• Speech-language therapy (vocabulary, emotions)

🌟 Why Teachers & OTs Love This Resource

• Over 120 cards across 10 skill sets — a huge fine motor rotation
• Low prep — uses materials you already have
• Covers counting, shapes, tracing, patterns, symmetry, AND emotions
• Flexible materials (play dough, pom-poms, markers, Wikki Stix)
• Works for centers, morning tubs, work stations, and small groups
• Reusable year after year once laminated
• Print-and-go

🎃 More hands-on pumpkin, fall, and Halloween favorites:

• Hands-On Pumpkin Activities
• Hands-On Fall Activities
• Hands-On Halloween Activities